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In the netherspace when neither the sun nor the moon is strong enough to light the world, shadows multiply and contract randomly, the small sounds that have been hidden become all that you can hear. The magnificance of the dull red sunset glow melts into dark melancholy.

Karoshi's debut album is a thing of depth and beauty. An electronic heart and a songwriter's soul, skittering glitch and abstract-jazz percussion, warm washes and delicate vocalists.

When Karoshi located to Canberra in early 2010, one of the first artists they hooked up with was Ah! Pandita and it wasn't long before plans were hatched for a split 7" single, matching their respective takes on left-field pop. The single comes with one track from each and a bonus download of remixes from Telafonica, Seekae, StephenFox, Loopsnake and Karoshi doing Ah! Pandita.

442-018Lessons In TimeSwords And Spears
Released August 2010AUS$12
(includes postage worldwide)

Swords And Spears develops the sounds from the debut EP, exploring the intersections between electro-acoustic improvisation, field recordings, cracked folk and digital manipulation. Canyons of near silence might open up in the middle of gentle folk meandering, or tin can percussion might propel brief, direct pop. Wassell deploys his multi-instrumental skills to fill the album with the acoustic textures of guitar, glockenspiel, melodica, synth, hawaiian slide guitar, cornet, mandolin and piano amongst percussion built from acoustic drums, scraps of paper, cardboard and hand percussion. No sound is left to its own devices too long, with moods chopping and changing at the press of a plug-in effect or the slice of digital scissors. Lyrically, Wassell explores themes of questioning beliefs, reassessing familial and friendship relationships and the twilight between childhood and adulthood.

With artwork drawn by Wassell himself and hand cut and folded at 4-4-2 Music HQ.
The album is released worldwide by our good friend at forthesakeofthesong Records. 4-4-2 Music have licensed it for the Australian market and so we can only mail copies of the album to Australian addresses. If you are anywhere in the world other than Australia, please go to the forthesakeofthesongs webshop (here) where you can purchase a copy.

1. In Regards To The Sorry Souls Of The Pretty Showmen
2. Free Rides
3. You Dance, And You Dance
4. How Dare I
5. Treats
6. Our Blanket
7. I Am Now The Empty Well
8. You Are Welcome
9. Little, Smart And Special
10. Marcus Aurelius Spoke To Me
11. If You Need To Hold Me
12. Wait One More Week

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442-016TelafonicaLove On The Second Stair
Released November 2009AUS$8 (approx €5/US$6)
(includes postage worldwide)

While still deeply rooted in electronic rhythms and processing, the addition of Blake Wassell (Lessons In Time), Eliza Magill and Rebecca Elmer has seen Telafonica's sound expand into more organic domains. All four members write and sing, colouring the tracks in diverse ways. For the first time on a Telafonica release, all the tracks are song based with a cohesive lyrical focus, alluded to in the album title. A widening of live sounds has also resulted, ranging from traditional piano, cornet and glockenspiel through to the quirkier toy piano, curtain rods and typewriter, as well as a wide range of acoustic percussion. Trainspotters can also listen out for samples or sonic references from/to the likes of Gus Gus, Martini Bros, Adam and the Ants, The Beatles, Chemical Brothers, LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective, Efterklang and Sufjan Stevens, amongst many others.

The London based contingent of Telafonica has certainly not been abandoned, with founding member David Hughes responsible for the artwork and design of the album packaging. The release comes in a hand built box containing the disc and a poster, all of which is printed using risograph technology.

1. I Can't Make You Love Me
2. Smells Like Rain
3. But I Lose Myself
4. The Quest For Love Aboard The Belafonte
5. ∆owyn And The Absolute Truth
6. Cover
7. Time To Move The Nest
8. Don't Speak For Me
9. The Separation Prepared This For Another Marriage

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442-015TelafonicaI Saw This And Thought Of You
Released March 2009AUS$7 (approx €4/US$5)
(includes postage worldwide)

A collection of tracks mostly created between the release of Telafonica's last album, Morpheme, in 2005 and early 2008, when David and Marcella moved to London. These were polished up over the course of 2008 and see the light of day on this release. Beginning an exploration of the cross between rhythms, melodies and subtle noise, the tracks have laid the foundation for Telafonica's live shows and for the types of music being created with the introduction of newer band members.

442-014Lessons In TimeLessons In Time
Released December 2008AUS$7 (approx €4/US$5)
(includes postage worldwide)

Lessons In Time is the debut release of 17 year old Blake Wassell. Handfuls of sounds are gathered and thrown into the air. They are then kept spinning precariously as fragments of song are formed in their shadow. With leanings toward (anti)folk combined with bedroom laptop processing, the EP is a textured exploration of sound and song.

1. An Invitation
2. How Very Good This Feeling Is
3. Light Is Sweet
4. Those Plastic Street Signs Are Not To Be Followed
5. The Light Broke

Pascow make moody guitar pieces of sublime melodicism. With backgrounds in more metal styles, brothers Adam and Cory Griffon started Pascow as a side project to create more melow, melancholy soundscapes. They bring their technical virtuosity with them but here experiment with different timbres. Some sparkling collaborations add a global ring to their remarkable vignettes. This is instrumental guitar music with depth, creativity and skill.

Comes in hand crafted and folded origami style packaging

1. Overture (featuring Apjiw)
2. The Beginning (featuring Rami of Tristame)
3. One From Many
4. The Ascent
5. Eclipse II
6. Segue
8. One From Many (bonus version featuring Oliver Loughnan)

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442-008Eliza MagillFingers And Fists
Released February 2008AUS$7 (€4/US$5)
(includes postage)

Eliza Magill recorded this EP at 17 years of age. For her HSC (final highschool) examination in Visual Arts, she designed and created the packaging for an EP, and recorded the music as a part of the work. The work was very successful, landing her a place in the Art Gallery Of NSW showcasing the best HSC artworks from across the state for 2007. That packaging is fairly labour intensive and a few copies will become available once the exhibition is over. For now, a simplified version of the artwork is available for the price of a regular EP. It still contains Eliza's drawings and is hand crafted for 4-4-2 Music.

The six tracks on the disc are based around Eliza's intimate piano based pop, coloured with a kaleidescope of instruments ranging from drums and guitars to glockenspiel, marimba, ukelele and melodica.

The Monstrous Now are (normally) a 5-piece improv band and this is their debut album. The instruments they utilise run the gammut of the history of electronic music production, from an actual VC3 (one of only 5 in Australia), analog tape loops, 8-bit sampling, fx pedals processing through to cutting edge realtime laptop digital signal processing. These are laid over a bed of acoustic drums, electric bass, guitar, sax and keyboards. Every performance is unique and on this album, 3 pieces are presented, culled from over 30 hours of live studio performances. The Monstrous Now don't stick to the regular parameters of improv, as happy making noise as they are dub. A truly expansive and inspiring collection of work.

The album comes in the new origami style packaging, lovingly Designed By Kind Permission.

1. Translations
2. There Is No Movement
3. The Moons Of Saturn

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442-009TelafonicaThe Punches Or The Lies
Released September 2007

CD Copy
AUS$7 (€4/US$5)
(includes postage)

At 40+ minutes, this is an EP in name only. Contains the single This Is The New Thing, along with 6 remixes of tracks from the forthcoming album. The remixes run the gamut of contemporary electronic styles, from the IDM of Marshall Watson and Broken Chip, the folktronic All India Radio, brooding German-tech from Sunstroke Militia and TiefenKLANG and finally, lo-fi crunch-dub from Andy Rantzen. The EP comes in a new style hand crafted origami sleeve. Value for money on all fronts.

Edith Metzger died in a car crash in
the 1950s
and is generally unremembered. Unfortunately
for her, the crash which took her life was
beyond her control. However, the crash itself is
one of history's more famous ones - a drunk
Jackson Pollock, who was at the wheel, also
lost his life. Edith Metzger was relegated to
the status of footnote - a forgotten shadow of
the man who took her life.Using this as the starting point, a
wide variety
of artists have put forth music worthy of the full
melancholic tragedy of the tale. Whether
upbeat, mellow or downright sad, all these
tracks have an undercurrent of loss and
longing.

The album comes housed in the full D.I.Y.
etchic of 4-4-2 Music. Everything, from the
painted and stitched cloth cover, the hand-
folded and glued cardboard inner sleeve,
hand painted and stamped discs, everything
apart from the actual pressing of the discs,
was done at 4-4-2 Music HQ to guarantee
that each copy is entirely unique.

A
Christmas
album aimed primarily at children, but without any of the patronising
or lazy musical production that this might normally be associated
with. You can tell everyone you are buying it for your
niece/nephew, but then keep it for yourself. The album is musically
diverse, veering from 1930s jugband
music to 1970s funk to 1950s rock'n'roll to garage house to dubby
trip-hop to psychedelic pop to....

As awkward as that all might sound, the album flows with a
consistent focus on strong melodies and simple songwriting. A
sample of a handful of the tracks (pre-mastered) can be found at
http://www.mp3.com.au/onestarband.

karaoke versions14. wake up!
15. the only one
16. mary's singing
17. more valuable than jewels
18. all for you
19. cousin john
20. knock! knock!
21. shepherd's song
22. it is true
23. nothing's impossible with god
24. one star

A debut album of sorts. While the band has been kicking around for a number of
years, has a few releases of its own and on various compilations under
its belt, an actual artist album is something that has not previously
been created. With Morpheme, the band has its first extended
foray with vocalist Marcella, and with a collection of tracks which
hang together in a traditional, album sense. While still
traversing diverse stylistic inspirations such as instrumental hip hop,
deep house, triphop, abstractpop and ambient, with both traditional
song structures and electronic sound pieces, an undercurrent of
tempered melancholy holds everything together tightly.

The album comes packaged with a hand silkscreened and text-stamped fold
out insert on recycled paper.

1. a distorted beginning2. your hands3. dust4. go to b.ed5. request6. sounding it out7. painter8. for the manifesto of some world view9. one and one10. st valentine11. music for rest

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442-004Telafonica
with StephenFoxPressed Into Oxygen
Released 2004AUS$12 (approx€7.50/US$9) (includes postage)

A departure
for Telafonica, delving into ambient atmospherics and abstract
soundscapes. This album is the result of two, non-synchronised
PCs running a variety of soundcreating, soundediting and
soundprocessing programs, being played through a mixing desk with
effects units, all in real time on to analogue tape. Over two
hours of raw material has been edited down to this 50-odd minute sound
journey.

1. alive at the
scanner2. too much
noise/lemon3. deeper then
darker4. pikkot5. remembering
the voices6. the bottom
line7. rising
after breakfast8. chinese
whisper torture9. lemering10. sinewaves
eat the future11. happier
than static12. asleep at
the scanner13. my own bed

The debut
release from Telafonica, 'dos' (Spanish for 'two'), is a double
e.p.. Feeling that, with the available material, an album might
be a little too schizophrenic, the group decided to split the tracks
into two shorter, distinct entities.

Disc One is the more upbeat of the two, covering electro, breaks, a
splash of dub and some straight up bigbeat.

The
second in
a series of, ummm...two compilations put together by Jonathon Sykes at
Clan Analogue early in the 21st century. The aim of these
compilations was that they all featured tracks that were already
available on other releases - so they worked as ads for those
releases. The compilations were free to be copied and distributed
by anyone - a kind of viral marketing. This was actually a big
influence on 4-4-2 Music's initial compilation - Reclaim Melody.

With full support from Clan Analogue, the CD is included on this
website as it contains a few artists
featured on other 4-4-2 releases and is, as far as we are aware,
unavailable anywhere else. The nominal price is to cover the cost
of a blank CD, case and postage but hey, you could probably even
nominate a
trade or such and we'd be happy to take you up.

The actual music covers a range of electronic styles which dominated
the Australian underground scene of the era, with a fairly strong
techy-dub feel throughout, but with offshoots traversing a much wider
spectrum than that definition might suggest.

From 1993
until late 1998, Bubblejuggler roamed the fringes of the Sydney guitar
pop scene, most noted for bands who they shared stages and
rehearsal space with such as Drop City, Sidewinder and The Crux (Sal
Paradise). The band put out a couple of cassette only releases
before putting together their only album, Sleight Of Hand.

The album traverses many of the diverse styles that the group explored,
from the mid-period Flaming Lips stylings of 'Picasso's Girl At Her
Mirror' to the shoegazing 'Largesse' and 'Saturday', the
updated Beatle pop of 'Alone' and 'Busted' to the
electronic ambience of 'Too Long Gone' and the Underground
Lovers style techno-rock of 'Of Sheep Husbandry (Livestock and Other
Tales).

Since the amicable split, bassist/vocalist Keith has devoted his life
to science, guitarist/vocalist Adrian went on to become part of
Telafonica, many of whose recordings were engineered by Bubblejuggler
drummer Kim. Adrian and Kim still hold some resentment over the
fact they weren't permitted to title this album after the most rock and
roll of all names, 'Keith'.